We Buy Any House

System

hazyjo wrote: »

Try auction, or price it right with an EA.


Quick buy companies will pay much less, and are likely to drop the price again during the process, prob near to exchange.

I notice this reply has received 3 likes (4 including mine) but to add my thoughts I'd say that this is a well known cynical ploy and I've been told that this is EXACTLY what "We buy any cars" do. They use this ploy in the exact way as this poster describes and this has been told to me by a first hand account. It's underhand and extremely deceptive in my personal opinion.

System

Davesnave wrote: »

With respect, what you describe is entirely different from the sort of buisness the OP mentions.

Yes I agree the model is completely different. There's people who do that here as well they buy, add value and sell or keep and they don't specifically go looking on people in a vulnerable situation such as people who are behind with a mortgage

Part of their modus operandi is to ask lots of background questions creating the false impression that they're concerned and helpful but in reality they're looking to find just how vulnerable and desperate you really are to sell and use this information to leverage your situation to their maximum financial advantage

As others have said the simplest way to get a fast sale is to price it right with an estate agent or an auction house, you could specify you require a fast cash sale and you could even specify that you require a non refundable deposit. Although this type of contract is generally not liked by good solicitors it is perfectly legal and doable after all this is exactly what the legal principles of a property auction are.

MobileSaver

Manchester2018 wrote: »

We used Quick move now a few years ago and they were excellent.

It seems not everyone agrees with you; there are some very negative reviews on the allAgents site:

Quick Move Properties 0% recommend 0% fee satisfaction

Davesnave

beanfarmer wrote: »

There's people who do that here .... they buy, add value and sell or keep and they don't specifically go looking on people in a vulnerable situation such as people who are behind with a mortgage.

We didn't specifically look for the financially vulnerable, but as we were buying during the Crash, we found them.

I'd class 3 properties we put offers on as having 'well motivated' vendors.

However, even when some people are staring into the abyss, they don't become motivated enough. Rightmove sold prices, show two vendors should have accepted our offers. The third did. She's now much wealthier than us.


There's a moral there somewhere!

System

Well everyone has to start with their first post. And maybe my boss will be happy on Monday I like to think i do a very good job....however, you are wrong in your sarastic wit, Im not employed by Quick move, the OP asked for opinions and i saw that all the replies were negative, my experience was a positive one which is why I gave mine.

Davesnave

Manchester2018 wrote: »

the OP asked for opinions and i saw that all the replies were negative, my experience was a positive one which is why I gave mine.

The OP asked for experiences, not opinions, which is why I explained that regulars on a money saving site would be unlikely to give those.

Houses sell at the right price, so there is no need to pay a third party extra commission to discover what it is. One simply has to investigate and accept the realities of the local market at a given time.

jimbog

Manchester2018 wrote: »

market values indicated around £120k

After the valuation they came back at £90k

Yes that cost us £7k but it was worth it

No, it cost you £30K

csgohan4

Manchester2018 wrote: »

Well everyone has to start with their first post. And maybe my boss will be happy on Monday I like to think i do a very good job....however, you are wrong in your sarastic wit, Im not employed by Quick move, the OP asked for opinions and i saw that all the replies were negative, my experience was a positive one which is why I gave mine.

So you made an account to show off you lost 30k equity off the alleged house you sold to them. Great thinking

System

Davesnave wrote: »

We didn't specifically look for the financially vulnerable, but as we were buying during the Crash, we found them.

I'd class 3 properties we put offers on as having 'well motivated' vendors.

However, even when some people are staring into the abyss, they don't become motivated enough. Rightmove sold prices, show two vendors should have accepted our offers. The third did. She's now much wealthier than us.

There's a moral there somewhere!

Yes there's motivated sellers everywhere and often people seem to have unrealistic expectations about house prices. Price is a very difficult thing to exactly work out with houses for instance I think I might have overpaid for the house I'm currently discussing.

FreeBear

beanfarmer wrote: »

Yes there's motivated sellers everywhere and often people seem to have unrealistic expectations about house prices.

There is a house that I had been looking at - It had been on the market for quite a long while at £250K and eventually sold for £215K. New owner fitted a new kitchen and redecorated throughout (in shades of grey). One year on, up for sale again at £335K :eek:

No way is it worth anywhere near that amount.